Assata Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, was convicted for the 1973 slaying of Trooper Werner Foerster. She escaped prison and fled to the communist nation Cuba, where “Common” actually went to visit her prior to his “A Song for Assata.”

Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Department Officer Daniel Faulkner.

Two murdered police officers. Two convicted cop killers. And the man who celebrated those cop killers was personally invited by the Obamas for a reading of his “poetry” in the White House.

The garbage excuses I have heard from Democrats are absolutely incredible. As genuinely depraved as I believe Democrats are, they never cease to surprise me with their moral depravity.

The latest defense was offered by Jon Stewart – and of course immediately picked up as a talking point by the left. I blocked someone as a lying vermin, and he posted back with – of course – Jon Stewart’s talking point. Said talking point is that if you exclude “Common” for celebrating cop killers, you must also discard any invite of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Bono.

What is interesting about this assortment of singers is that the above list consists of – in order from above – 1) a left wing radical; 2) a hard-core Democrat; and 3) a liberal.

Let’s take Bono – who apparently wrote a song called “Native Son” about an American Indian named Peltier who killed two FBI agents – first:

Bono fans fill Obama coffersThe presidential hopeful has found just what he’s looking for in U2 devotees as they swell his campaign reserves
Times, August 30, 2008
By: Colin Coyle

One is charismatic, plays to packed stadiums and wants to change the world. The other is Bono. Now a group of U2 fans, struck by the parallels between Barack Obama and the Irish rock star, have become one of the U.S. Democratic presidential nominee’s most enthusiastic band of supporters.

U2 fans for Obama, a collection of 103 U2 devotees, has raised almost $18,000 (EU12,200) for the presidential hopeful’s campaign and organised more than 600 events to date.

The group, whose website and blog are linked to the presidential candidate’s official homepage, believe that “since Bono can’t run for U.S. president, Obama is the next best thing”. Their blog declares that members “see in Obama a progressive Christian who embodies the ideas and sentiments…so compelling in U2’s music.”

The politician is already an avowed fan of the band, recently telling Rolling Stone magazine that U2 is on his iPod playlist. Bono attended the Democratic convention in Denver last week where he heard two U2 tracks, “City of Blinding Lights” and “Beautiful Day,” bookend Obama’s acceptance speech early on Friday. “Beautiful Day” was also the musical backdrop a night earlier when Obama introduced Senator Joe Biden, his nominee for vice-president, to the Denver crowd.

Oh, yeah, that one sure puts us conservative Republicans to shame. He’s clearly one of our guys, right? I mean, we’re responsible for this guy, right?

Oh, that’s right: WRONG!!!

I’m not going to bother to see if Bono was ever invited to attend anything during the Bush presidency, but if he was, I’ll bet you it was because of his humanitarian efforts, rather than because of his songs.

Then there’s Bruce Springsteen. I don’t know what cop killer this turd eulogized, and I really don’t care. But here’s the skinny on him:

The support that the music star known as “the Boss” threw behind the Illinois senator was a highlight of a relatively quiet day on the campaign trail, as Obama and rival Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared for Wednesday night’s Democratic debate in Philadelphia.

As Bob Dylan sang, “I’m liberal but to a degree. I want everybody to be free. But if you think I’m going to let Barry Goldwater move in next door to me and marry my daughter you must think I’m crazy . . .”

And Goldwater, of course, was the Republican nominee who was destroyed by the famous/infamous 1964 “Daisy” ad (you know, the ad by Vietnam warmonger Lyndon Johnson that implied Goldwater was a warmonger).

So Dylan was really just a garden variety liberal: he was the kind of hypocrite who was liberal, and therefore tolerant of everybody and everything but people he disagreed with like conservatives. Then the intolerant hater burst out of his chest like that creature from Alien.

So I can draw two conclusions from this: 1) if you sing songs celebrating cop murders, YOU ARE A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT. And 2) Democrats are so insane that they actually justify Obama inviting a rapper who celebrates two cop murderers by citing three other liberals who also seem to have celebrated cop killers.

Only a Democrat is morally sick and psychologically irrational enough to see the reason in this defense.

Allow me to also point out that this black president who made sure we all understood that “the Cambridge police acted stupidly” (conclusion determined after stating he didn’t know any of the actual facts) invited a black man who eulogized two Black Panthers who both murdered WHITE police officers.

And here is Philadelphia Police Department Officer Daniel Faulkner, who was murdered by Mumia Abu-Jamar.

Take a good look at these two white men who were murdered by Black Panthers as they tried to do their duties maintaining the thin blue line between civilization and total anarchy and mayhem. And tell me how you would feel about a president inviting a singer who wrote songs celebrating the murders of two BLACK police officers by two convicted white Ku Klux Klansmen who were nobly fighting for “white justice,” or “white power,” or “the cause,” or however the hell you want to phrase it to make it like “Common’s” eulogies. Because THAT is EXACTLY what we have in the case of two Black Panthers murdering two white police officers.

The Obama administration has lacked vision and urgency in responding to the worst environmental disaster it has faced. The oil gushing from the destroyed rig into the Gulf of Mexico has overwhelmed the industry and local governments, and only Washington can muster the resources to meet such an ominous threat to the entire coast. Yet the president did not send his top environmental aides and mobilize the Navy and Air Force until Friday — after the giant slick already had reached the fragile marshes and shorelines of the Mississippi Delta. The federal response must match the magnitude of the threat of environmental and economic calamity that stretches from Louisiana to Florida.

Government officials on Friday complained about the slow initial response to last week’s deadly explosion by BP, which leased the rig Deepwater Horizon. There will be plenty of time to point fingers. All need to work now in a spirit of cooperation with federal and state responders to contain the oil slick and to plug the cracked wellhead nearly a mile beneath the surface on the sea floor. Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday declared a state of emergency for six Panhandle counties, and high winds and strong seas could push the slick to Pensacola’s beaches by Sunday night.

Now the Obama administration needs to remain focused, move quickly to try to limit the damage and prepare to aid communities from the Louisiana fishing towns to the Florida beaches. This is going to be a long-term operation, with projections that it may take months to slow the leak. The crisis will evolve — 10 days after the explosion, officials could still only estimate that 210,000 gallons of crude a day, five times the original figure, are pouring into the gulf. But it should be clear that sending nonprofit groups to the coast with dishwashing soap to scrub oil-covered animals is helpful but hardly enough.
President Barack Obama met U2’s Bono in the Oval Office on Friday when he should have been headed to the Gulf Coast. The president did order a freeze on new offshore drilling leases until investigators determine what caused the oil rig explosion and the massive spill and propose safety improvements. But in the long term, the president should retreat from his plan to expand drilling in gulf waters, which includes reducing the buffer off Florida’s west coast from the current 235 miles to 125 miles. As this disaster illustrates, the risk simply outweighs the potential for more oil and financial windfalls for government.

Obama assured the Gulf Coast on Friday that the federal government will meet the challenge. His predecessor made similar declarations in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and those proved to be hollow promises. This president does not want to make the same mistake in meeting the biggest environmental emergency of his administration.

This most definitely is an administration with its head wedged up it’s sphincter. Is Obama going? No, I mean yes:

The White House announced Saturday morning that Obama would head to the Gulf Coast on Sunday, just a day after saying he would not go. During a brief visit Sunday to Louisiana, nearly two weeks after disaster beckoned, Obama said: “I’m not going to rest … or be satisfied until the leak is stopped at the source (and) the oil on the Gulf is contained.” It was about time.

Well, of COURSE you’re going to do the thing you said of course you wouldn’t do.

Just a passing thought: why was that BP rig in mile deep water? Because Obama and his Democrats have steadfastly refused to allow drilling on the coastal shelf. If that rig had blown up in the shallow water of the shelf, it would have been contained within hours. Instead, it’s going to take months.